Tekken 8’s first DLC character will be a well-known face: Eddy Gordo, the capoeira professional who has beforehand appeared within the mainline roster of the preventing recreation series since 1997’s Tekken 3.
Publishers Bandai Namco introduced that Eddy will be Tekken 8’s first DLC addition alongside a have a look at the sport’s opening film, which reveals the likes of Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima and the remainder of the sport’s roster making ready to struggle and buying and selling blows whereas thumping EDM performs within the background. There’s a hen flapping about too, however I don’t assume you’ll be capable of struggle it.
The video shifts over to exhibiting a number of the behind-the-scenes mocap concerned in recording its characters’ animation, earlier than revealing Eddy pulling off some trademark capoeira strikes and spin kicks to his signature music.
As revealed within the video, Eddy will be the first of 4 playable characters added all through this yr; after he arrives this spring, new characters will observe over the summer season, autumn and winter. The 4 characters will make up the first season pass for the sport, including to the core recreation’s roster of 32 playable characters together with regulars akin to Yoshimitsu, King, Bryan and Paul alongside newcomers Reina, Victor and Azucena.
The newest iteration of the long-running preventing recreation will embrace a digital arcade mode along with its story mode – specializing in the father-son scrap of Kazuya and Jin – and the native/on-line fights you’re after. It’s all finished in Unreal Engine 5, so it’ll look very good little question.
Tekken 8 will hit Steam on January twenty sixth, with the Eddy DLC but to be dated. The final Tekken ended up receiving over a dozen extra characters throughout 4 season passes – going past the sport’s universe to incorporate Final Fantasy XV’s Noctis and The Walking Dead’s Negan – so anticipate some wilder fighters to throw down sooner or later.